Peyton

by Max Brand

Stranded on the plain when his guide disappears, Paul Torridon must continue his journey alone... Mild-mannered Jerry Peyton is forced to use the revolver he inherited from his father...

Genres: Westerns

324 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2011

About the author

Frederick Schiller Faust (see also Frederick Faust), aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C. Butler, George Challis, Evin Evan, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Lee Bolt, Peter Dawson, Martin Dexter, Dennis Lawson, M.B., Hugh Owen, Nicholas Silver

Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.

Reviews

[Jrobertus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Max Brand is one of about a dozen pen names for Frederick Faust, who wrote some 500 novels and screen plays such as Destry Rides Again and Dr. Kildare. His characters are well defined and he has a reputation as a master of the Western genre. Sadly, this is not a genre I enjoy. This book, Peyton, has two novels “The Man from the Sky” and “Peyton”. The first one centers on a young man traveling to a fort (no doubt modeled on Bent’s Fort) to meet his lady love. He finds a dying Cheyenne Indian who he nurses back to health, only to be taken into their society as a messenger of the gods and held captive. By the way, as he was nursing him he learned to speak Cheyenne and have sophisticated discussions with them. OK, why not. It should be a snap for any red blooded American cowboy to pick up a non Indo-European language in just no time. Peyton is a young man, son of a famous gunman, who is a sort of western superman. Though only 24 years old he is as wise as a philosopher, so strong he can beat up four huge farmers or three drunken Irishmen, so good with a gun he can shoot the pistol from the hand of the fastest gunman anyone in the book has seen before. It is unclear if he can fly but I suspect he could. I admit that Brand develops his characters and lets us in on their thoughts and motivations, but I kept thinking “get ON with it man”. To me there was too much development, I get the picture.

[Peyton · Rating 5 out of 5]

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